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Past Events

Annual Meeting and a Discussion: Looking Back at the SJC Law Clerks Society, and Looking Forward to its Future.

June 5, 2018 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Please join us for our Annual Meeting and a Discussion: Looking Back at the SJC Law Clerks Society, and Looking Forward to its Future. Wine & cheese with your friends. Tuesday, June 5, at 5pm at the Conference Suite, Second Floor, John Adams Courthouse, One Pemberton Square, Boston. (Click here to download an iCal invitation for your calendar.)

On Friday, May 4 at the John Adams Courthouse from 9 am to noon, we will assist the Court in celebrating Law Day. The theme for this year’s event is: Separation of Powers – Framework for Freedom. The Law Day celebration is a wonderful opportunity to give back to the Court and share your passion for justice with younger people.

Law Clerk’s Society’s will hold its annual meeting, featuring a presentation by Professor Brian Sheppard, currently a Professor of Law at Seton Hall University, and formerly a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court. We will discuss the emergence of a recent trend of citizens using high-profile challenges directed to legal ethics offices, to obtain review of the conduct of high government officials. Professor Sheppard has written extensively on the subject, including in an op-ed to the Boston Globe on December 19, 2016 entitled “Bring the Gitmo Detainees to Trial.”

The longtime theatrical and educational partner of the Supreme Judicial Court, Theatre Espresso, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a reception at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, honoring Justice Robert Cordy (Ret.)

The Law Clerks society will be celebrating Law Day again with the Supreme Judicial Court. This is a wonderful opportunity to give back to the Court and share your passion for justice with younger people.

Past and present SJC law clerks are invited for light refreshments on Wednesday, June 1 at 5:30pm at our annual meeting, where we will welcome author Barbara F. Berenson to speak about her latest book, Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution.

For the ninth year, volunteers from the Supreme Judicial Court Law Clerks’ Society will participate in the Supreme Judicial Court’s Law Day program at the John Adams courthouse. Volunteer members of the society will lead discussions with 70 high school students about Theatre Espresso’s production of Justice at War (about the internment of Japanese citizens during WWII) and the 50th Anniversary of Miranda v. Arizona. More details to follow.

2015 Fall Reception, including a Welcome to the New Clerks and a special viewing of the ABA-Sponsored Magna Carta Exhibition. John Adams Courthouse in Pemberton Square. See the flier for the event here.

For the eighth year, Law Clerks’ Society members participated in the Supreme Judicial Court’s Law Day Program. This year’s theme was “Magna Carta: Symbol of Freedom Under Law” The theme was intended to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the “Great Charter of Liberties,” the foundation of many basic rights which Americans hold dear today, including due process, habeas corpus, trial by jury, and the right to travel.

For the seventh year, Law Clerks’ Society members participated in the Supreme Judicial Court’s Law Day Program. This year’s theme was “American Democracy and the Rule of Law: Why Every Vote Matters.” The theme was intended to commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.